Pumking - Oaked
Southern Tier Brewing Company in Lakewood, New York, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Pumpkin Regular|
Score
7.65
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Draft from a 2010 keg at Brouwerij lane. Same incredible aroma and taste as the regular pumking but with a stronger bit of malts and hops.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
On tap at Sugar Maple. Wow, so rich. Phenomenal, the best pumpkin beer out there. Sweet pastry-like pumpkin sugar tones. Lots of spice, but incorporated well. The oak adds even more vanilla, throwing it well over the top. Big and bold, but still maintains a great drinkability. Wow.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Draft at Brewvival 2012. Pours clear golden with a tan white head. Decent head retention. Aroma of candy corn, pumpkin, vanilla, caramel, faint wood. Overly sweet. The taste is pumpkin, hops, caramel, vanilla, oak, earthy notes. Medium bodied. Still smells like the sickly sweet regular crap but the taste is better.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
I have never had an oak aged beer that tasted so similar to the regular version. Perhaps just a touch drier on the flavor but otherwise nearly identical to the original. +++ Sampled on draft at D’s in Monroeville this beer poured a dark amber color with a trace yellow-white head that faded quickly and left no lacing. The aroma was sweet butterscotch, caramel and hazelnut. Very strong and appealing. The flavor was very strong with hazelnut, butterscotch and caramel with a touch of light hops and spices - mainly nutmeg and clove. Long finish. The mouthfeel was very thick and syrupy.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
On draught at Gallo’s during the Southern Tier Smorgasbord on 01/25/2012. The beer pours a clear orange color with a minimal white head that dissipates quickly to an outer ring. Spotty lacing on the glass. Pumpkiny aroma that is pretty much dead on with the regular Pumking. Notes of bready malt and ginger in the nose too. Full-bodied but drier and less syrupy than the regular one. As a matter of fact had I not known it was oak-aged I probably would have just figured it was a few months old. Lots of pumpkin flavor along with ginger and vanilla. The finish is sweet and leaves a lingering pumpkin aftertaste. Frighteningly easy to drink, and a very good beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Tap at The Ginger Man, NYC. Pours clear amber with a foamy, off-white head. Nice pumpkin, bread and spice aroma. Flavor is not nearly as sweet as I remember the regular version of this beer being. It’s rather bready almost, with some slight doughy character. Plenty of pumpkin and spice, like ginger and cinnamon. Medium to full bodied with fine to average carbonation. Faintly warming finish, more toasty bread-dough, spices, rich pumpkin. The ’oak’ presence really only came through slightly for me in the form of some modest woody alcohol in the finish. Overall a pretty damn good beer, and quite a bit more subdued than a lot of Southern Tier’s other offerings.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
A golden amber ale with almost no head. In aroma, a rather nutty butterscotch malt with cinnamon notes, buttery yet nice, buttered popcorn. In mouth, a smooth woody butterscotch malt, with cinnamon points, very nice. On tap at Barcade Brooklyn, Dec. 30 2011.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
On tap. Pours with a hazed golden-orange hued body with a small white head. Aromas are bready, biscuity, nutmeg, toasted spices. Glorious. So bready and malty, graham cracker, light vanillin, clove and cinnamon. Flavors are super malty, bready, oak, ginger, graham cracker. Sooo much malt character. Some nutmeg, a touch nutty, cinnamon, medium oak, crackers, tannin, spice and vanilla. Medium bubbles, fuller body and a bit warming. Very tasty.